Voting records: which bills and why

Every incumbent legislator on the ballot gets the same fixed list of bills, shown exactly as recorded on the official roll call.

Rules

• Same bills for everyone. The list is fixed per state, not picked per candidate, and applies to every incumbent of every party.
• Which vote counts. For each bill we show the final floor vote in the chamber the member sat in at the time: passage, or the vote agreeing to the other chamber's changes. Procedural votes (amendments, tabling, reconsideration, immediate transmittal) are not used. A member who served in the House when a bill passed shows their House vote, even if they are now a senator.
• Exactly as recorded. Each vote is shown in the official record's own terms (for example Excused or Not Voting in Georgia; Present, not voting or Absent in Texas). Bills voted on before a member took office are left out, not marked.
• Checked. Members are matched by their official member ID, and a build test re-checks every vote, date and tally against the saved official roll call before anything is published. Titles are the official captions.

Georgia (official roll calls, legis.ga.gov)

• SB 220: Putting Georgia's Patients First Act (renames low-THC oil as medical cannabis). House Vote #743 (Agree to Senate amendment to House substitute); Senate Vote #742 (Agree to House substitute as amended). Bill page
• SB 36: Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act. House Vote #401 (Passage); Senate Vote #142 (Passage). Bill page
• SB 1: Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities Act. House Vote #350 (Passage); Senate Vote #373 (Agree to House substitute). Bill page
• HB 428: Health: codify right to in vitro fertilization. House Vote #333 (Agree to Senate substitute); Senate Vote #293 (Passage by substitute). Bill page
• SB 68: Civil practice: revision of provisions on civil practice, evidence, damages and liability in tort actions. House Vote #290 (Passage); Senate Vote #273 (Agree to House substitute). Bill page
• HB 111: Income tax: reduce rate of tax. House Vote #196 (Passage); Senate Vote #256 (Passage). Bill page
• SB 140: Prohibits certain surgical procedures for treating gender dysphoria in minors in hospitals and licensed facilities. House Vote #243 (Passage); Senate Vote #259 (Agree to House substitute). Bill page
• HB 481: Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act. House Vote #343 (Agree to Senate substitute); Senate Vote #227 (Passage by substitute). Bill page
• Applies to every House and Senate incumbent on the 2026 general election ballot. Incumbents on the ballot who took office after all of these votes, so have no record on them: Lanny Thomas, Sheila Clark Nelson, Venola Mason.

Texas (official record votes, Texas House and Senate Journals)

Texas uses the same topics as the Georgia list, so both states are measured the same way. The rule: for each Georgia bill, we take the Texas bill or bills enacted by the 87th to 89th Legislatures (2021–2025, regular and called sessions) that put the same policy into law. Where Texas enacted no such bill in that period, the topic is left out for Texas.

• Heartbeat abortion law (Georgia HB 481): Texas SB 8 (2021).
• Gender-transition care for minors (Georgia SB 140): Texas SB 14 (2023).
• Girls' and women's sports (Georgia SB 1, school and college): Texas HB 25 (2021, school) and SB 15 (2023, college).
• Medical cannabis expansion (Georgia SB 220): Texas HB 1535 (2021) and HB 46 (2025).
• Left out for Texas: income tax cut (Georgia HB 111), since Texas has no personal income tax; religious freedom restoration (Georgia SB 36), since Texas has had such a law since 1999; the tort-law overhaul (Georgia SB 68), since Texas's closest bill, SB 30 (2025, health care-related damages in civil suits), was not enacted; and the IVF right (Georgia HB 428), since we found no Texas bill on it enacted in this period.

• HB 46 (2025): Relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis under and the administration of the Texas Compassionate-Use Program; requiring registration. House: adopt conference committee report, Record #4163 (6/1/2025); Senate: adopt conference committee report, Senate Journal (6/1/2025). Bill history
• SB 15 (2023): Relating to requiring public institution of higher education students who compete in intercollegiate athletic competitions to compete based on biological sex. House: passage (third reading), Record #1813 (5/18/2023); Senate: concur in House amendment, Senate Journal (5/26/2023). Bill history
• SB 14 (2023): Relating to prohibitions on the provision to certain children of procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment, or gender dysphoria and on the use of public money or public assistance to provide those procedures and treatments. House: passage (third reading), Record #1688 (5/15/2023); Senate: concur in House amendments, Senate Journal (5/17/2023). Bill history
• HB 25 (2021, 3rd called session): Relating to requiring public school students to compete in interscholastic athletic competitions based on biological sex. House: concur in Senate amendments, Record #138 (10/17/2021); Senate: passage (third reading), Senate Journal (10/15/2021). Bill history
• HB 1535 (2021): Relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis by patients with certain medical conditions and the establishment of compassionate-use institutional review boards to evaluate and approve proposed research programs to study the medical use of low-THC cannabis in the treatment of certain patients. House: concur in Senate amendments, Record #1688 (5/28/2021); Senate: passage (third reading), Senate Journal (5/25/2021). Bill history
• SB 8 (2021): Relating to abortion, including abortions after detection of an unborn child's heartbeat; authorizing a private civil right of action. House: passage (third reading), Record #784 (5/6/2021); Senate: concur in House amendments, Senate Journal (5/13/2021). Bill history
• Which vote counts in Texas. The final floor vote in each chamber: passage, the vote agreeing to the other chamber's changes, or adoption of the conference committee report. Votes are shown exactly as the journal records them: Yea, Nay, Present, not voting, Absent, excused, or Absent. A member's later "statement of vote" in the journal is not counted as a vote.
• Unanimous Senate votes. The Senate Journal lists no names when a vote is 31–0, so all 31 senators are shown as voting yea. We confirm the 31 names from that legislative day's roll call in the journal.
• Matching. Members are matched by their Texas Legislative Reference Library member ID, using the legal names and dates of service on the Library's member pages, so similar names (for example two members named Johnson) are not confused. The Speaker usually does not vote and is recorded as "Mr. Speaker"; that entry is shown for the member who was Speaker that day.
• Applies to every Texas House and Senate incumbent on the 2026 general election ballot. Incumbents on the ballot who took office after all of these votes, so have no record on them: Taylor Rehmet.

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